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On the recordAugust 13, 2019
if you lost your job today and lost your house and lost everything and became homeless, would this be the way you would want to be treated, to get a ticket because you were sleeping in a car?
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Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Garcia questions the treatment of homeless individuals through ticketing.

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